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Planning to consider expanded rezoning request

Posted
Monday, May 22, 2017 12:09 am

By LAURA MILITANA

A request to rezone property on Locust Avenue is back before the Cookeville planning commission, but with some additional properties.

The commission will consider rezoning 113, 116, 119 Locust Ave. — properties that were in last month’s request — along with 127 Locust Ave., 440 and 446 A, B and C, 452, 454 and 464 A and B E. Hudgens St. and 108, 112, 116 and 132 S. Lowe Ave. from RS-5, single family residential and CL, local commercial, to CN, neighborhood commercial.

Another item the commission will consider are amendments to the zoning code to insert provisions for single-family cluster developments in the RD, RM-8, RM-14, CN, CL and CG zoning districts.

Cluster developments are single-family dwellings that have the appearance of townhouses, but are detached. They often are built to preserve more land as open space.

“We need to support and promote this as much as townhouses,” James Mills, Cookeville planning director, said.

“They’re just as attractive as townhouse developments.”

Currently, cluster developments are allowed in certain zones.

This amendment would expand the developments to other zoning classifications.

Planners will also consider renaming Buffalo Valley Road from West Jackson to South Willow and from South Willow Avenue to Scott Avenue.

Also on the agenda is consideration of the preliminary plat of Eagle Point; eight lots off Interstate Drive and South Walnut Avenue and Mercantile Subdivision; 20 lots on E. 10th Street; the final plat of Jeremy and Elizabeth Cook division; three lots on Davis Avenue and Womack Avenue; a six-month extension of the preliminary plat of Broadway Apartments Phase II; and resubmittals of preliminary plat of Copper Springs Phase III and Somerville Phase I.

The Cookeville Planning Commission meets Monday at 5:30 p.m. in Cookeville City Hall.